Leaders like Chavez see Obama as “PantyWaist” President; even his words are hollow.

“So, what is the response of the Messiah in the Oval Office? Really severe rhetoric, is the answer. The soundbite manufacturers have been burning the midnight oil and the auto-cue is going into meltdown. So is the confidence of Asian leaders. The word is out: the most powerful nation on earth has got itself a pussycat for a president and all the bad guys are queuing up to give him the finger.”

 Full article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/05/29/barack_obama_all_the_bad_guys_are_giving_president_pantywaist_the_finger

MO & BO Date Night: Dinner and a Play in the Big Apple

     Even in times of a recession, couples try to keep their relationships strong, even if it means having to cut back on the usuals. For the average American family, that might mean renting a DVD instead of going to the movie theater.

    But for the Obama’s, America’s First Couple (Barack wore jeans and a polo shirt to Malia’s soccer game today, if you care!), is setting the example for the American public in a visible way. So for tonight’s “date night”, the Obama’s have opted to not use Air Force One to take them to dinner in New York City, but instead use one of the “smaller” jets in the fleet, a Gulfstream. Of course, there are the obligatory helicopter flights, and the accompanying fighter jets.

      So we have:

                                 Plane ride to New York City:  at least $100,000

                                 Dinner and Theater tickets:   $500-600

                                 Example for Recession cutbacks: Priceless

        Oh, to be fair, the Obama’s will be reimbursing the taxpayers an amount equivalent to two round trip tickets DC to NYC!

“Do you need assistance dressing?” “How many flush toilets”? The 2010 Census Begins

    The number of flush toilets in the house?

    Assistance in getting dressed?

     These are extremely important questions that are a part of the average 38 minute census form that we will all begin receiving. Lest we be fooled, the census, originally intended to take a count of the population for the reapportionment of Congressional seats among the states, is now going to be used for database research for a myriad of privacy related concerns. Of major focus will be questions that would enable the Obama administration to foster its universal health care program and to enable GE to further the Obama goal of medical information online (and available to the government) for future healthcare decisionmaking.

     Here is the link to the “American Community Survey” http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/SQuest09.pdf

Read here for further information: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99337

America’s Rapid Descent into Marxism: Sheeple led to the Slaughter

 

“It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.”

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/

Acorn, Obama, and the NYT: Ties that will bind—-like a noose!

From Michelle Malkin:

They thought it would go away. They were wrong. Obama and the Left thought ACORN’s scandalous racket was a dead issue. But whistleblowers, investigative bloggers, and talk radio continue to press for transparency and taxpayer accountability. Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King has renewed efforts for congressional hearings into the financial structure of the massive, publicly subsidized activist group and its non-profit affiliates. Judicial Watch sheds light on ACORN’s partnership with the Census. Keep an eye on ACORN’s propaganda role in the Obama push for a government health care takeover. And Glenn Beck spotlights the left-wing strategy session to rescue ACORN.

My column today returns to one of the Obama campaign’s big lies — that Barack Obama “never organized with ACORN” and that ACORN had nothing to do with Project Vote. They were joined at the hip back then and they remain joined at the hip today.

The truth about ObamACORN
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

Left-wing groups in Washington, D.C., are panicked. The New York Times and other Team Obama whitewashers have tried hard to suppress mounting evidence of legally suspect coordination between the Obama presidential campaign, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and Obama’s old employer Project Vote (ACORN’s non-profit canvassing arm). Alas, the truth keeps seeping out.

At a closed-door pow-wow hosted Thursday at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, activists discussed how to combat a relentless stream of corruption charges from ACORN/Project Vote whistleblowers. But it’s too late for a reputation bailout. Former Project Vote official and whistleblower Anita MonCrief has harnessed the Internet to crowd-source a massive cache of documents showing ties between Obama staff and the supposedly “non-partisan” ACORN operations.

Last fall, the New York Times abandoned an investigation into whether Obama had shared donor lists with Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization that is prohibited from engaging in political activity. Public editor Clark Hoyt earlier this month called it “the tip that didn’t pan out.” Critics suggested that the donor lists could have been compiled through public records. But I have obtained the lists — not only of Obama donors, but also lists of Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry contributors. The records include small donors to the Obama campaign who are not disclosed in public campaign finance databases. It’s information only a campaign could supply.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/29/document-drop-the-truth-about-obamacorn/

Review of Sotomayor Decisions Begin in Earnest

Few Quotable Quotes in Sotomayor Opinions; Was Ambition the Reason?

Posted May 27, 2009, 08:42 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is known for elaborately detailed opinions—with a couple curious exceptions.

In two hot-button cases involving gun rights and firefighters charging reverse discrimination, the New York-based appeals judge joined in short unsigned opinions, Politico reports.

In one of the cases now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, a three-judge panel of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that included Sotomayor issued a “remarkably cursory” unsigned opinion, the New York Times reports in a story highlighting one of the two opinions. Only one paragraph was devoted to reasoning.

In another unsigned opinion, Sotomayor joined with a panel that rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a New York law prohibiting the possession of a martial arts weapon, nunchuks, Politico says. The panel said the U.S. Supreme Court had not made clear in District of Columbia v. Heller whether the individual right to bear arms applied to the states.

Sotomayor’s other opinions, on the other hand, are more detailed, the Times says. They are “marked by diligence, depth and unflashy competence. If they are not always a pleasure to read, they are usually models of modern judicial craftsmanship, which prizes careful attention to the facts in the record and a methodical application of layers of legal principles,” according to the newspaper.

“But they reveal no larger vision, seldom appeal to history and consistently avoid quotable language. Judge Sotomayor’s decisions are, instead, almost always technical, incremental and exhaustive, considering all of the relevant precedents and supporting even completely uncontroversial propositions with elaborate footnotes.”

The Rev. Barry Lynn told Politico he has had trouble learning about Sotomayor’s stance on church-state issues by reading her opinions. He questioned whether the elusiveness is intentional.

“You have to think about your public record and the public trail if you’re going to move up in the judiciary,” he told Politico. “And I think she’s savvy enough to have done so. It is a self-preservation pattern.” He added: “In this contentious era of every nomination becoming a political campaign I can understand why someone would choose to do that.”

The Associated Press has published excerpts from rulings and dissents by Sotomayor, including a ruling that says the government can withhold public funds as a way to favor the anti-abortion position. In a dissent, Sotomayor took a First Amendment position in a police firing case, the Times adds. Sotomayor argued a police officer’s alleged anonymous racist comments were hateful and insulting, but he should be allowed to pursue a suit claiming his firing was unconstitutional.

http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/few_quotable_quotes_in_sotomayor_opinions_was_ambition_the_reason

CyberSpace Wars: Obama to name a CyberCzar and Pentagon Sets up for Cyberwarfare

Pentagon plans new cyberspace war command

Fri May 29, 6:22 am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare, the New York Times said on Friday.

The military command will complement a civilian effort President Barack Obama plans to announce on Friday that will overhaul the way the United States safeguards its computer networks, the newspaper said on its website.

Citing Obama administration sources, the Times said the president will detail on Friday the creation of a White House office that will coordinate a multi-billion-dollar effort to restrict access to government computers, protect systems that run U.S. stock exchanges, clear global banking transactions and manage the air traffic control system.

The Times said the civilian office would be responsible for coordinating private sector and government defenses against thousands of cyber-attacks mounted every day against the United States, largely by hackers but sometimes by foreign governments.

For full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090529/pl_nm/us_security_cyberspace

Related: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_cyber_struggles;_ylt=Av2EeZOAOH3VL5e8fkOv1_Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJxN2sxaW9uBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNTI5L3VzX29iYW1hX2N5YmVyX3N0cnVnZ2xlcwRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzExBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA29iYW1hc2V0dGluZw–

September’s G-20 Summit to be held in Pittsburgh, not NYC

US to host next G-20 summit in Pittsburgh

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI – 1 hour ago

 

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh is known for steel. For sports. For smoke and smog. For a spectacular downfall. But not often for recovery.

For years, political leaders, community activists and ordinary residents tried to convince the world beyond its three rivers that this former industrial powerhouse was on the rise with an economy built on higher education, medicine and new technology.

From Sept. 24 to 25, it will get a chance to prove its point to the world leaders representing 85 percent of the world’s economy. On Thursday, the White House announced that President Barack Obama decided to host the next Group of 20 economic summit in Pittsburgh as a way of illustrating what success can look like.

“This is Pittsburgh’s chance to show visitors the world over a first-class time in our first-class city,” Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said in a statement.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama recommended Pittsburgh at the end of the group’s April meeting in London, because the city “has seen its share of economic woes in the past, but because of foresight and investment is now renewed, giving birth to renewed industries that are creating the jobs of the future.”

Once the American frontier, Pittsburgh emerged from the battles of the French and Indian War 2 1/2 centuries ago.

 

Full release: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hySHcABqpeZk0WUIIFnDMRIQ5k5QD98FFVT80

Obama Occidental Classmate puts Obama College Year Photos on Display

Keep the Blindfold on the Great Lady Justice

From Jeff Schreiber at www.AmericasRight.com :

Note the Blindfold, Mr. President
By Jeff Schreiber
America’s Right

Mr. President, Lady Justice wears a blindfold for a reason.

She is not to know of strife. She is not to know of circumstance. She is not to know of wealth or poverty, strength or weakness, education or illiteracy, gifted oratory or bumbling foolishness.

Obviously, Mr. President, you know not the role of the judiciary.

Your remarks today showed complete ignorance as to the designated function of two of the three branches of the very government you lead. You say that “justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a casebook,” but it is. That “abstract legal theory,” Mr. President, is the United States Constitution, a document you have in the past derided as being fundamentally flawed. You say that justice is “about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives,” but you’re wrong. Making law is the role of legislators; a judge’s role is to interpret it and nothing more. You would know this, sir, if you had spent more time in the U.S. Senate actually legislating rather than preening and campaigning and planning your next move.

For Jeff’s full post: http://www.americasright.com/2009/05/sotomayor-and-lady-justices-blindfold.html